Running

Another 3.2 miles done yesterday morning really digging running to work. I need to get hold of a cheap watch though with a stopwatch.

Tomorrow I'll run my 1.5 miles then Monday run my 3.2 miles again.

I'm tempted, but the run in for me is 7.5 miles, the distance is not really an issue but the lack of a shower at the work end would be.

I'd plan on that taking an hour to run, which would simply mean leaving the house half an hour earlier.

This is why I looked into joining a City based gym when I started my new job here, but all the gyms were either horrific or stupidly expensive.

hmm yes I don't think I'd be running to work without a shower. Cycling I don't mind so much, but running no thanks!

tempo session, 9.5 miles, 1 hour 12m
then got home to find the boiler was broken so had to drive to my sisters to get a shower.

My boiler broke 18 months ago. You get used to cold showers eventually.

Anyone doing the Birmingham half in October? Just spontaneously signed up for it....

fell off my bike on friday [stupidly, riding mine, wheeling my daughters, crashed hers into mine]
proper hurt base of my back,tried to go out for 15 miles yesterday and managed 500m before having to stop.
managed a slow 5 miles this morning, think it's just muscular from the impact, as I'm not feeling any ill effects now, looser if anything
panicked as Marathon on 9th October, got to make up missed out run yesterday this week before i start my taper.

I was doing 1k intervals yesterday to try and get my speed up. But I've got fucking shin splints again. Grrrr! Did three and called it quits before I made it worse. I noticed it after a 6k the weekend before, but took the week off (with a ride mid-week instead of a run), but I guess I should have taken more than a week. Will give it another week and try again. I guess....

I have to get out tonight, I've not been for weeks now. A quick 5K for a given value of quick) in the park tonight will go a long way toward making me feel better about things I think.

@nickel: Don't panic. A couple of years ago I got the flu 4 weeks before the london marathon. I was wiped out for a week. I still made it round with a revision of target time. Let it heal, that is more important than getting every run in. At this stage all you can do is screw it up!

I was doing 1k intervals yesterday to try and get my speed up. But I've got fucking shin splints again. Grrrr! Did three and called it quits before I made it worse. I noticed it after a 6k the weekend before, but took the week off (with a ride mid-week instead of a run), but I guess I should have taken more than a week. Will give it another week and try again. I guess....

I took a week off with shin splints before the duathlon. I iced them for 20 mins every hour (as much as I could, got some strange looks in the office for my frequent trips to the freezer for a bag of mixed-veg), elevated, and wore compression (tubigrip) all the time. I also followed these stretches/excercises I found on Runners World:

http://tinyurl.com/6ahen6f

No idea which of these helped, but after 6 days I was able to complete without any pain. Not my quickest times ever, but I got round.

I went for a quick (for a given value of...) 5K tonight after I got home.

Remarkable for nothing other than a) I quite enjoyed it, and b) with half a mile to go (yes I mix my units freely) until the end of my 5K I first lengthened my stride, then sped up, accelerating smoothly from 8 minute miles to 7 minute miles.

Felt really good.

Gym tomorrow, then run Wednesday- cannot decide between a fast 5K (today was 25 mins or "slow" as it is known) or a moderate pace 10K.

My first 5k tonight which isn't me running to work. Should be faster as I won't be carrying any weight. I'll probably end up being slower though knowing my luck.

Oh and Dammit to a relatively new running like me 25minutes is fast!

damn, being as im winning races at the moment Ive gotta go running training again tonight. cake! yeah

Doing Berlin at the weekend - woefully under-prepared but hoping that I will get through on a couple of long runs and a season of triathlons. Just looking to have a good time I think... perhaps a question for the Berlin travel thread but I am staying over for an extra day on Monday in the city - anyone got any recomendations for what to do on a whistle stop tour as well as a good place for a couple of drinks on Sunday eve?

After recovering (hopefully) from some troubling foot-knack I did my first run in six months on Weds evening. Managed a hilly 12k around Highgate and the Heath, in a reasonably respectable 65 mins.

Since cycling keeps me in some sort of decent shape I can never manage to motivate myself to run as much as I wish I did. Was good to be back out there reminding myself how much I actually enjoy it. Legs have been pretty sore since yesterday morning, getting down stairs takes me bloody ages.

Wasn't sure if I should post here, or in collisions, I settled for the latter yet for completness:

http://www.lfgss.com/post2425719-551.html

I feel your pain. A few weeks ago I turned a corner and ended on the floor with a bloody knee. Thanks bush, for hiding a concrete bollard.

I stopped that bollard from jumping out in front of someone else, with my knee. Frankly a public service and I claim my reward.

Doing Berlin at the weekend - woefully under-prepared but hoping that I will get through on a couple of long runs and a season of triathlons. Just looking to have a good time I think... perhaps a question for the Berlin travel thread but I am staying over for an extra day on Monday in the city - anyone got any recomendations for what to do on a whistle stop tour as well as a good place for a couple of drinks on Sunday eve?

How did you do mate? Looked like a cracking conditions and course.

Was pretty good thanks... Great course, amazing support and we had great conditions. Was shooting for ambitious 25 min 5k splits which would have equated to roughly 3:25-3:30ish. Was cruising until my lack of long training miles caught up with me blowing up with 10k to go. Finished in 3:41 which I'm still happy with as it's a pb by nearly 30 minutes.

Would defenitely recommend Berlin for anyone looking to do a marathon. Now for a few beers!

good effort fella, youve earnt them beers

It looked pretty good over. I caught the end of the pro chicks on tv with Paula coming in 3rd.

Mysterious running injury.

Out of nowhere I seem to have sprung a miscellaneous pain in my right quad. After straining my left calf/achillies on the 10th and then running a (near PB) 10k race on the 11th, I had just over a week almost completely off (bar a couple of short jogs/stretching sessions to monitor my recovery). On the 20th I ran a pretty relaxed 10k with zero problems. On the 21st I ran 13k at a good solid pressure, I ended up posting my fastest ever time over that training route and felt very composed and strong and I was really buzzing afterwards - very happy. On the 22nd I was feeling a bit pooped from the previous days effort so took things easy but felt fine. Then on the 23rd I was due to run 16km.

The weather was scorching and I never felt quite right, so I just ran at a very steady pace. After about 7 or 8k my legs started feeling sore (mostly around the joints) and at 11km I was passing back near my office and stopped at a water fountain. I was expecting to run 30k on the 24th and I just wasn't feeling it so I gave up and walked the couple of hundred meters back to the office. I felt a little bit stiff but nothing extreme or overly unusual.

My desk is on the 2nd floor, and when I got back to the office I started up the stairs and suddenly it felt like someone was driving a knife into my right calf. The pain was/is very localised, and I can clearly pinpoint it as an area of a couple of square cm right in the very centre of my right quad, and deep in the muscle. Since then the pain hasn't subsided at all, but it only occurs when I put power through that area (so going up or down stairs/slopes), it is completely normal otherwise - there is no pain when I poke around at the area and none of the standard quad/leg stretches yield any response.

Any suggestions as to possible diagnoses and/or rehab (in addition to rest)? I'm reasonably used to managing tendon/joint strains and muscle strains where I can stretch the affected area but this just feels a bit weird (and painful whenever stairs are involved).

It's frustrating because combined with a lot of travelling next week (back to the UK), it'll amount to 3 weeks off in the middle of what should be an intense training block.

I'm probably going to get his name wrong, but it's something like Bluerip00 on here who is a sports physio might be a good man to speak to, or Elguapo gives a mean massage and might be able to investigate and advise?

In other news I ran around the local supermarket instead of having a burger at Souths- go me.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/117313613

Cheers, I haven't run since Thursday and it seems to be easing up a little bit (although still present). One of the reasons for posting was that I'm not in the UK at the moment but as of tomorrow I'll be spending a few days in planes and airports on my way back so fingers crossed it'll be sufficiently rested when I get back. If not I'll be strait off to the physio.